Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1887-11-24
NEWSY NOTES.

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Secretary Whitney has returnedt wash
ington improved in health.
A Chinese steamer in the Canton river
was burned with 400 lives.
RI. Wilson, Petersburg lawyer, has
become a Methodist preacher.
Sir VIM. McArthyr, ex-lord mayor, was
choked to deal by dense London fog.
The Saratogo Is tel in Chicago was par
italy burned l. @eek. The guests escaped.
Horatio ]. Sprague is the oldest consul
in seryice-was appointed to Gibralter III
'46.
Frank Hicks, an ex-slave living near
Mckinney, Tex, is known to be III years
old.
Eighty eight thoroughbred horses were
sold at Lexington, Ky, last week for $685.
$40.
DR.. IL. J. Helmbold, the patent medicine
man, is at Bellevue hospital, New York for
inebriety.
Robert Bonner has transferred the New
York Ledger property to his three sons and
will soon retire.
The Chas Carroll who married Ban
croft's granddaughter, is a grandson OF Z.
c. Of Carrollton.
Rev. Chas A. Berry, of Wolverhampton,
Eng, has been called to Plymouth pulpit.
The salary is $4,000.
The New York supreme court has refused
to admit young Chinaman to the bar tho
he passed the examination.
A genuine wild man, running on all
fours and covered with stubby hair, was
captured in the Jersey woods.
Clara Louise kellogg, the opera singer,
was married at Elkhart, Ind, last week to
Carl Strakosch, aged %, her manager.
Frisco has shipped to England for prep
aration for market train loads of Alaskan
seal skins-the freight thereon being over
$4,000
Senator Hawley of Conn and Miss Edith
Horner, the English head nurse at Block
/ lev hospital, Phila, were married in that
city last week.
Official returns make the Va legislature
stand Senate 90 Dem, II Rep. House 81
DEM, 80 Rep, l indeP.-Dem majority
joint ballot 81
Geo L. Rives, of n Y, is appointed First
| Assistant Secretary of State at Washington.
/ His grandfather was Senator from Va, and
twice minister to Paris.
J Miss Suzanne Bancroft, the French grand
/ daughter of Hon. Geo Bancroft, the histo-
rian, was married in Washington to Chas.
Carroll Of Howard Co, Md.
The last living representative in New
! jersey Of the old Delaware tribe of Indians,
Ann Roberts, lives at Indian Mills, Bur
lington county. She is eighty.
Thirteen thousand two hundred bales Of
cotton burned in Memphis. Loss $4,000
| At Little Rock a small boy and cigarette
destroyed 5000 bales-loss 100000
The great Belgian exposition at Brussels
will open May Sd next Applications for
space, etc. must be made before Jan. l to
Armstrong. Knauer and Co., SD Broadway,
New York.
Miss Nellie CO ke, who ran for school
commissioner in Wayne county, \. Y, As
a Democrat and was beaten, was married
last week to VIM. Coon, her gallant Repub
lican adherent in the campaign.
The Corcoran Art Gallery at Washing
ton has received from Bremen the big pict-
ure of Pope julius the ID scanning the
newly found statue of Apollo Belvidere.
It is b. Becker and cost 10000 marks.
Sunday will be the anniversary of the
death three years ago of Fanny Ellsler, "the
laughing danseuse" Another one of these
queens of the ballet died in 1SS4-Mara
Taglioui on April "a A third temptress
in tights died Jan. II, lS6l-LOla MOntez.
The Port Huronites in Michigan, ten
dered Judge Z. ". Bunce their townsman,
a reception last week on his Tooth birthday
The old gentleman is quite vigorous Was
born in Hartford, Oonn.-hi- family own
ing the farm on which the famous Charter
Oak stood.
The Phoenix Insurance Co., Of Hartford,
bought last week at trust sale II Of the
Grant Row houses on East Capitol-st. in
Washington on which the Co. had trust
q eds Prices paid-from $4,000 to $40,
600. Albert Grant. contractor, now dead,
built this Row in a.